STANDING TALL: Usher's just-released LaFace/ZLG album Here I Stand will be #1 in a romp next week, based on one-day sales from relieved retailers around the country. The album should do between 425-450k, which will challenge Mariah Carey for the year's best first-week sales. New Line Records' Sex and the City soundtrack is next up, at 30-35k, which could go higher based on the eagerly anticipated film opening this Friday. Blue Note's critically acclaimed new Al Green album, Lay It Down, produced by the Roots' ?uestlove, should do between 25-30k. The market was down 3% from last week, down 13% vs. same week last year and now down 11% year-to-date. You may now return to blogging your life away. (5/28p)
No artist is going to save the market. The market is like a person who was diagnosed with cancer. We know it will die, we just don't know exactly when. Sure there are times when it seems like it's getting better, but it gets even worse after.
No artist is going to save the market. The market is like a person who was diagnosed with cancer. We know it will die, we just don't know exactly when. Sure there are times when it seems like it's getting better, but it gets even worse after.
But that means eventually an artist will sell 0 albums.
I think from now on, each CD should come with a concert ticket. So everyone who buys the CD will have the right to attend a free concert of the artist.
I think from now on, each CD should come with a concert ticket. So everyone who buys the CD will have the right to attend a free concert of the artist.
Cherish said whoever buys their album and listens to it will answer some questions or something and they win a "BIG" prize. Yet 13K later.
It probably won't die completely, but eventually artists will move to other forms of distributing their music.
#1 for 3DD 